Leyburn Sprints kicks off Sir Jack Brabham celebration - Speedcafe
Organisers will dedicate the milestone anniversary two-day event to Australia’s triple F1 world champion Sir Jack Brabham who died last year aged 88. Leyburn’s celebrated Sprint weekend was instigated to revive memories of the 1949 Australian... Racing continued for several years after the Grand Prix with Brabham, who had made a name for himself on Speedway tracks at the time, winning the Queensland Road Racing Championships in a Cooper-Bristol Redex Special at Leyburn in 1953. The... Among the favoured entries for outright honours are the defending champion Dean Amos in a V8-powered Judd Gould and the Warwick Hutchinson-drive rotary-powered Van Diemen which took honours in 2012 and 2013. Dean Tighe and Michael Von Rappard will... Among the demonstration runs will be the Mildren-Waggott single-seater, affectionately known as the ‘Yellow Submarine’ driven internationally by Kevin Bartlett and Frank Gardner and a 1980 Ford Capri of touring car ace and 1965 Bathurst Armstrong... Source: www.speedcafe.com
